Weaponsmith Archive

I highly suggest you get into the Munitions market... Most long time masters really do hate making things like Proton Grenades, Rocket Launchers, Heavy Particle Beam Cannons, etc.

If you are on Lowca... seek me out I'm looking for a weaponsmith that can specialize in munitions and there is vendor space avail in the tent where my vendor is.

The best thing about the munitions line is that the quality of the materials doesn't have to be all that great.. the extra 200 damage on a 1500-3500 weapon is pointless... So you should be able to eek out a nice living with this while you get your ranged and melee resources together. then when you have enough ranged and melee resources that are fairly good, you can then begin to make some pretty comparable stuff to the long time masters. It took me nearly2 months of resource gathering and sales to finally break into the market. Most of my stuff now is uber rare and extremely limitedthat I wouldn't dare use it to make munitions.

Rockets on my server are anywhere from 30K each to 120K each depending on how much the smith hated making it and what kind of resources were used. Heavy particle beam cannons have been selling for 5K each easily and they don't really take much to make.

I was thinking, Can any New Master Weaponsmith do anything in current "economy" of swg without experimentation tapes?

Or experimentation tapes make only weapons with a little plus damage/speed/special cost or condition but are near weapons crafted without this tapes?

Definitelly,¿ can weaponsmith make same weapons than +12 experimentation weaponsmith? Two crafters with same resources.

Well to answer your question yes new master weaponsmiths can compete but it’s the resources that will make or break that competition. By this I mean, in general, most weaponsmiths that have been masters for a longer period of time will have a larger selection of resources to choose from when crafting. As for the skill tapes and the bonuses of having 11 or 12 experimentation points as opposed to just the normal 10, with the way that crafting is setup now (excluding the one day free for all /Patch 7 F-up) using the exact same resource a new master weaponsmith will be able to max out say the DMG/speed experimentation bar at the same level % as a seasoned MWS. The tapes help in the area of having 1 or 2 more points to then experiment on other stats and thus having an overall better weapon. So if all you want to compete in is the DMG/speed arena then yes you can do this but when everything is said and done the weaponsmith with the bonus points will be able to out experiment a weaponsmith without them. I hope the makes sense.